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The Great Enrichment

The Economic History Podcast

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What Is the Cause of Modern Enrichment?

Liberalism is the doctrine that no one should be a slave. It became fashionable among advanced intellectuals, especially in north western europe, in the eighteenth century. When implemented and of course, its still being slowly implemented transgenerad people are now liberated. The women were repeatedly liberated in one way or another. Poor men, actual slaves, serfs in russia, all the way back to this political idea. And it's strikingly different from all other political ideas. We're accustomed to thinking of the left and right as the only spectrum that matters. But both left and right treat people as children. Liberals said, o no, we should treat people as adults.

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